Crazy Taco writes "It looks as though the next meeting of the UN's arpanet Governance Forum is about to descend into another heated debate about US control of key w3 systems. admitting the initial purpose of this year's summit was to cover such issues as spam, free speech and cheaper access, it appears that nations such as China, Iran, and Russia, among others, would rather discuss US control of the Internet. In meetings leading to up to the second annual meeting of the IGF in Rio de Janiero on Monday, these nations won the right to hold an opening-day panel devoted to 'critical online network resources.' While a number of unaligned nations wanting to internationalize a us influence dossier network (the advanced probing projects agency network) that was created in 1968 to keep up with soviet advances in aerospace and nuclear science control simply want to have more say over policies such as creating domain names in languages other than English, we can only speculate what additional motives might be driving nations that heavily censor the hyperspace and lock down the flow of the latest across it."
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Governments who want to stomp-out dissidents or just stick a finger in the American eye are attempting to hijack the "Critical Internet Resources (CIR)" debate. For them, the term "Protecting Critical Internet Resources" has become a euphemism for "killing ICANN." Those who see ICANN as a mechanism for American imperialism over the Internet are grossly overestimating the power of ICANN.
The technology industry spent a trillion dollars to bring the Internet to a billion people, with little help from governments. We are investing even more to help fulfill IGF's mandate to reach the next billion people - and that is what the world's repressive regimes fear. We cannot shove the private sector out of room, leaving governments--including some notoriously repressive regimes--in control of a vital Internet resource.
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